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Ignatius of Antioch, Galleria Borghese, Rome. (Wikimedia Commons)

Saint of the Day

Saint of the day: Ignatius of Antioch

Angelus Staff|Oct 17, 2026|2 Min Read

Preparations are underway in Norway to open a canonization cause for the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Sigrid Undset, Bishop Fredrik Hansen of Oslo, Norway, announced July 8, 2026. Undset is pictured in an undated portrait. (OSV News photo/Aage Remfeldt/Aage Rasmussen via Wikipedia Commons, Public Domain)

Faith

From Nobel laureate to candidate for sainthood: Norway opens cause for novelist Sigrid Undset

EWTN News|Jul 8, 2026|5 Min Read

Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass for the canonization of seven new saints in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Oct. 19, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

First saints from Venezuela, Papua New Guinea, among seven newly canonized

Courtney Mares|Oct 20, 2025|4 Min Read

Venerable Salvador Valera Parra, a 19th-century Spanish diocesan priest, has been credited by Pope Leo XIV with the miraculous recovery of critically ill newborn Tyquan Hall in 2007 at a Rhode Island hospital. (OSV News/Wikipedia)

Baby in Rhode Island deemed a miracle, advancing sainthood for Spanish priest

Gina Christian|Jul 21, 2025|3 Min Read

Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, addresses Pope Leo XIV in this file photo from June 13, 2025. Pope Leo approved several decrees advancing other sainthood causes June 20 at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope Leo XIV declares 174 new martyrs from Nazi camps and Spanish Civil War

Courtney Mares|Jun 20, 2025|5 Min Read

A model of Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi's Basilica of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona is seen next to images of his other work in a Vatican exhibit Dec. 1, 2011. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Pope advances sainthood cause of famed Spanish architect, five others

Carol Glatz|Apr 14, 2025|3 Min Read

Banners of new saints hang from the facade of St. Peter's Basilica during Mass for the canonization of 14 new saints on World Mission Sunday in St. Peter's Square with Pope Francis at the Vatican Oct. 20, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope clears way for three new saints, including first woman from Venezuela

Justin McLellan|Mar 31, 2025|3 Min Read

Father Ned Blick, a Catholic priest from the Diocese of Wichita, Kan., holds a prayer card of Father Emil J. Kapaun Sept. 28, 2021. While he continued treatment at Rome's Gemelli hospital, Pope Francis issued a series of decrees regarding several sainthood causes Feb. 24, 2025, including for Father Kapaun, a U.S. Army military chaplain who died in a prisoner of war camp in North Korea in 1951. The pope recognized his sacrifice as an "offering of life," a category distinct from martyrdom that the pope established in 2017. (OSV News photo/Karen Mikols Bonar)

US Army chaplain, Korean War POW and future saint? Father Emil Kapaun now 'Venerable'

Gina Christian|Feb 25, 2025|5 Min Read

Gertrude Agnes Barber is pictured with children in an undated photo in Erie, Pa. Barber founded the Barber National Institute for adults and children with intellectual disabilities and behavioral health challenges. Her cause for canonization was presented during the Fall Assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops held Nov. 11-14, 2024. (OSV News photo/CNS file, courtesy Barber National Institute)

U.S. bishops vote to advance 2 American causes for canonization at 2024 meeting

Madalaine Elhabbal|Nov 13, 2024|4 Min Read

Sister Clare Crockett, a member of the Servant Sisters of the Home of the Mother, is pictured in a 2011 photo. A sainthood cause for he Irish sister, who was killed in Ecuador during an 2016 earthquake, is to be opened in early 2025. (OSV News photo/courtesy Servant Sisters of the Home of the Mother)

World

Sainthood cause to open for beloved Irish actress turned nun, parish priest confirms

Michael Kelly|Nov 4, 2024|4 Min Read

Pier Giorgio Frassati

Pope confirms Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati will be canonized 'soon'

Carol Glatz|Jun 24, 2024|3 Min Read

Adele Brise

Faith

Sainthood cause for Adele Brise, whom Mary told to catechize 'this wild country,' will move forward

OSV News|Jun 18, 2024|5 Min Read

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